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It has been performed and adapted in countless ways, and is still one of the most-studied plays in the world.

Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular play, telling the story of two doomed lovers.

Without the First Folio only half of Shakespeare’s dramatic output would have survived. The First Folio added another eighteen, including Macbeth, The Tempest and Twelfth Night all of which are indispensable to the modern repertory. Eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays had already been published in the small, cheap format known as quartos during his lifetime, including such favourites as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. It was printed in 1623, seven years after his death. This facsimile edition of Romeo and Juliet is taken from the large and handsome book known simply as the ‘First Folio’, the earliest collected edition of Shakespeare’s ‘Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies’.